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EPISODE · Nov 14, 2025 · 31 MIN

‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London

from The Audio Long Read · host The Guardian

Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today By Yvonne Singh. Read by Karl Queensborough. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/longreadpod

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